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Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan(www.theverge.com)

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JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee
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I phased it out quickly last year by cancelling.

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Puttaneska@lemmy.world
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Me too.

I’m sure there was stuff that I’d enjoy, but finding it was near impossible.

At the end of the occasional thing I’d watch to the end, an irrelevant ad for something else jumps up. Kin annoying.

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WanderingVentra@lemm.ee
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What a perfect example of enshittification.

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alchemist2023@lemmy.world
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and so I return to the high seas…

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BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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Oh man, i was really early into using netflix, i had to use a vpn for the first year or so because it wasn’t available where i live. Back then i thought this is gonna be a steam situation where i stop pirating stuff for good. How innocently stupid i was

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sunzu@kbin.run
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Y’all gonna need to pay some more peasants

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3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world
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i sincerely hope netflix will crash and burn.

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Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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They got their money by being cheaper and easier than piracy. They have relinquished that.

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The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

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